Unless they're the national champion, a student who's a great trapeze artist is unlikely to get a break in admissions if they have a B average special as it is, colleges get no money, media, or prestige from those who fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
Prestige media organisations strive perhaps above all to be counterintuitive, and attract readers or viewers by debunking conventional wisdom.
It offers what academic medical centers want these days -- prestige, media attention and the accompanying financial benefits.
Donald Trump's election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from the prestige media.
As Business Insider noted, this signaled an interesting change in Facebook's public relations strategy, which is notoriously secretive, characterized by unhelpful blog posts and exclusive interviews with prestige media outlets.
In prize money, prestige and media attention, the Vuelta has been lowest among the Grand Tours.
Not long ago, The Financial Times would have been the crown jewel of any media company, instantly conferring prestige and influence on its owner.
Far removed from their notional or founding ideals, these events dramatically embody changes in the wider world: fast-increasing inequality, growing corporate power, the rise of the homeland security complex, and the shift toward much more authoritarian styles of governance utterly obsessed by the global gaze and prestige of media spectacles.
At the same time, I can't help noticing some aspects of this euphoric response, especially from western European elites and from the prestige news media, that are disingenuous and even hypocritical.
